Musical instrument- Mridangam

                        Mridangam

               The musical instrument  Mridangam, conjointly spelled mrdangam, mridanga, or mrdanga, two-headed drum contend in Karnatak music of southern Bharat. it's made from wood in an angular barrel form, having an overview like an elongated polygon. Thong hoops around every finish of the drum, animal skin thong lacing, and tiny wood dowels slipped underneath the lacings management the skin tension.

                   A removable patch of standardisation paste is appendant to every finish, giving the drum an explicit pitch. The left head is sometimes tuned an octave not up to the proper. The drum is control across the lap and contend on each ends with the hands and fingers. the same instrument, the pakhavaj, is contend within the Hindustani tradition of northern Bharat, moreover as in West Pakistan and East Pakistan.

Parts of Mridangam:

                 The body of the mridangam is scooped out of one block of wood. Jackwood or redwood is that the ideal selection of mridangam manufacturers, however the wood of morogosa tree or the core of the Cocos nucifera and also the palm is additionally used for this purpose. it's formed sort of a barrel whose right head may be a very little smaller than the left. The instrument is one-and-a-half or 2 feet long and its diameter is twenty-five to thirty centimetres. The creating of the parchment may be a extremely developed ability. the correct head of the drum consists of 3 coaxial layers of the skin, the innermost being hid from read, that may be a complete skin, and 2 layers at the boundary. Out of those 3 the whole one is created of cow-hide with calf-skin used for the outer ring and sheep skin for the inner ring.

                 There is another version of the arrangement of the skin, i.e. the inside is created of calf skin, the center layer is of goat skin and also the outer thick layer is created from cow skin.